By the Numbers
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10,000
Number of Baby Boomers who will turn 65 each day, for the next 17 years
90
Megabytes, the average monthly data usage by teens age 13 to 17 in the third quarter of 2010
321
Megabytes, the average monthly data usage by teens age 13 to 17 in the third quarter of 2011
327
Consecutive months that the temperature of the entire globe has exceeded the 20th century average
33
Percent of the summer sea ice in the Arctic that has disappeared
$21 trillion
The cash shielded from taxation in tax havens by the world’s wealthiest people
$21 trillion
The combined GDPs of the United States and Japan
11.1
Percent, the lowest poverty level in American history, reached in 1973
15.1
Percent the poverty level today
Sources: Businessweek; Rolling Stone; Tax Justice Network; Chicago Tribune